In the early 1920’s feminism made a huge leap forward causing women to be viewed as people rather than property, but in the early 1960’s many women still felt more needed to be done. Before 1960, equality was just a thought being pondered by every woman in America, but now women felt they had to fight for equal rights. One of these woman was author Betty Friedan who through her writings changed...

On September 26, 1960 Henry R. Clark, a real estate broker from Jackson, Florida sat down after dinner in front of his television. He was vigorously flipping through the channels in excitement to see Richard Nixon debate. Henry was a proud Republican and he considered himself a supporter of Nixon’s. Clark was just in time as the two candidates took the stage. Senator John F. Kennedy from Massachusetts...

John Kennedy’s 1960 address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association was delivered to assuage the suspicion many Americans harbored against him from the beginning of his race for the Presidency. Senator Kennedy and most of his aides correctly assumed that they would be facing some of the same prejudice and fear over the course of the campaign that Al Smith, the Catholic Governor of New...

With the Angel of Mercy to guide and guard her, Captain Sally Tompkins gazes into the congregation of Saint James Episcopal Church located in Richmond, Virginia. This stained-glass window was installed on September 10, 1961 to honor Captain Tompkins for her extraordinary service to the Confederacy during the Civil War. The window features Captain Tompkins dressed in a conservative purple dress...

On July 15, 1960, a crowd of over 80,000 people congregated at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California, all of them had one thing in common, to hear the words of the newly selected Democratic Presidential Nominee, John F. Kennedy. Before the Kennedy campaign, the United States had entered the early stages of the Cold War, Fidel Castro installed a communist regime ninety miles off the coast...

During his run for the presidency, Senator John F. Kennedy successfully hid his troubling medical history from the public. JFK suffered from Addison’s disease, which is a disease where the adrenal glands do not produce enough hormones. Kennedy’s longtime doctors, Janet Travell and Eugene J. Cohen kept the secret of Kennedy’s severe health problem, which required regular doses of cortisone...

In 1944, the U.S. Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, often called the G.I. Bill of Rights (or just the G.I. Bill), to provide aid for returning veterans of World War II (and prevent another economic crisis like the Great Depression, which the country had just recovered from). The bill’s main provisions were to guarantee that veterans would receive several things that had previously...

The article "U.S. Court Orders New Orleans To Start Pupil Integration in Fall: Outlines Grade-a-Year Plan After Board's Refusal to Present Own Proposal INTEGRATION SET IN NEW ORLEANS was written by Claude Sittons and published on the New York Times on May 17, 1960. The article states thaton May 16, 1960 Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright set September as the deadline for New Orleans...

Businesses line the streets in Black Bottom, a predominately black neighborhood. Hastings Street is alive with the rustle and bustle of suppling many needs for residents—ministry, food produce, restaurants, retail stores, music, and a “Right Hand Cleaners.” Cars galore use this main street in Detroit as a thoroughfare to get through this community to head to Downtown Detroit, but many community...

It was a crisp, cool morning in the Southeastern United States. The mist was settling, and the grass was saturated with dew. Springtime was beginning, just as it has begun every season. However, this year, something was different. A dark and mysterious presence had befallen the land. Cattle, chicken, and sheep died in large numbers. Sickness and disease spread through families across town, crippling...